The Fallacy of Freedom in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fallacy of Freedom in America write by Gloria L. James. This book was released on 2008-01-01. The Fallacy of Freedom in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Fallacy of Freedom in America
The Fallacy of Freedom in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fallacy of Freedom in America write by Gloria Bell. This book was released on 2024-05-24. The Fallacy of Freedom in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reports the encounters with the brutal, vicious, murderous police who run rampant throughout every major and minor city in the Nation. For the most part these adverse acts are never elaborated on in the news. The reality of daily living in these United States is thus, when told, comes as a shock to the body and a wound to the soul.
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America write by Ellis Cose. This book was released on 2020-09-15. The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named one of Newsweek’s "25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020" The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America—free speech—and reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet powerful and timely book. Free speech has long been one of American's most revered freedoms. Yet now, more than ever, free speech is reshaping America’s social and political landscape even as it is coming under attack. Bestselling author and critically acclaimed journalist Ellis Cose wades into the debate to reveal how this Constitutional right has been coopted by the wealthy and politically corrupt. It is no coincidence that historically huge disparities in income have occurred at times when moneyed interests increasingly control political dialogue. Over the past four years, Donald Trump’s accusations of “fake news,” the free use of negative language against minority groups, “cancel culture,” and blatant xenophobia have caused Americans to question how far First Amendment protections can—and should—go. Cose offers an eye-opening wholly original examination of the state of free speech in America today, litigating ideas that touch on every American’s life. Social media meant to bring us closer, has become a widespread disseminator of false information keeping people of differing opinions and political parties at odds. The nation—and world—watches in shock as white nationalism rises, race and gender-based violence spreads, and voter suppression widens. The problem, Cose makes clear, is that ordinary individuals have virtually no voice at all. He looks at the danger of hyper-partisanship and how the discriminatory structures that determine representation in the Senate and the electoral college threaten the very concept of democracy. He argues that the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect free speech and democracy have instead become instruments of suppression by an unfairly empowered political minority. But we can take our rights back, he reminds us. Analyzing the experiences of other countries, weaving landmark court cases together with a critical look at contemporary applications, and invoking the lessons of history, including the Great Migration, Cose sheds much-needed light on this cornerstone of American culture and offers a clarion call for activism and change.
The Fallacies of States' Rights
The Fallacies of States' Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fallacies of States' Rights write by Sotirios A. Barber. This book was released on 2013-01-01. The Fallacies of States' Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barber shows how arguments for states’ rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits, not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central government, when there are greater dangers to confront.
Fallacies and Free Speech
Fallacies and Free Speech - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fallacies and Free Speech write by Juhani Rudanko. This book was released on 2021. Fallacies and Free Speech available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of free speech. The author's approach privileges fallacy theory, especially the fallacy of ad socordiam, in a key Congressional debate in 1789 and other forms of verbal manipulation in newspaper editorials during the War of 1812. He argues that in order to understand James Madison's role in the evolution of a broad conception of freedom of speech, it is imperative to examine the nature of the verbal attacks targeted at him. These attacks are documented, analyzed with the concept of aggravated impoliteness, and used to demonstrate that it was Madison's toleration of criticism, even in wartime, that provided a foundation for a broad conception of freedom of speech. This book will be of interest to both scholars and lay readers with an interest in the application of discourse analysis and historical pragmatics to political debates, argumentation theory and fallacy theory, and the evolution of the concept of freedom of speech in the early years of the United States. Juhani Rudanko is Professor Emeritus at Tampere University, Finland. He was Associate Professor of English at that university from 1979 to 2001 and then Professor from 2001 to 2016. His publications include books and articles on the system of English predicate complementation, including its evolution, and on early American political history.
